Genre: Thriller

There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

Posted February 9, 2019 in Reviews // 6 Comments

I couldn’t not pick this one up. How many YA thrillers are there? With Stephanie Perkins success with Anna and the French Kiss, I was curious to see what she had to offer in different genres. I think that overall, There’s Someone Inside Your House is just okay, but it’s appropriate for its intended audience. Mikani Young has a past, one that has been expunged from her record and she doesn’t want her new friends in Nebraska learning about. She’s startling to settle in here – she has two friends, a routine, and that fling she had over the summer that may turn into something. But no […]

Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips

Posted February 4, 2019 in Reviews // 1 Comment

Thrillers are hit-or-miss with me. Either I’m obsessed with them, or they fall flat. Fierce Kingdom fell flat for me, but I don’t think that’s necessarily the fault of the book? I think I wasn’t quite the right audience for this thriller. Firstly, a lot of the actual suspense would have hit home better with a mother. The first half of the book is all about Joan’s fear about Lincoln, and something happening to her son. There’s a lot of flashbacks about her son, and I do feel like all this would have been more relatable to a parent. I don’t […]

Misery by Stephen King

Posted December 6, 2018 in Reviews // 3 Comments

Wow. So, a million years ago, my then-boyfriend sat me down and decided that for date night, we were going to watch Misery. He told me it was based on a Stephen King book, like that would give it brownie points because it was based on a book. I remember cringing a lot, and not loving the general flow of the movie – the actors, especially. I remember being hooked. Fast forward about six years later to today. I married that schmuck, and Misery popped up on my TBR. I remembered the story being formidable, and I’ve read a lot of […]

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

Posted September 20, 2018 in Reviews // 2 Comments

Retired detective Bill Hodges is wasting away in front of his television. That is, he’s wasting away until a letter makes its way to him, bearing the signature of a killer he wasn’t able to catch. Suddenly Hodges has something to pry him out of his Laz-E Boy and back on the streets, where he does a little investigating outside the law… to bring the City Center Killer – aka Mr. Mercedes – to justice. Mr. Mercedes is told mainly from two perspectives – Bill Hodges and Brady Hartsfield. The hero and the villain. There is never any question […]

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

Posted July 26, 2018 in Reviews // 2 Comments

Night Film is like the marriage between an Alfred Hitchcock film and the perfect film noir. It’s difficult to read the story and not imagine Humphrey Bogart acting as the determined Scott McGrath. It’s good, it’s really good. It’s also very slow paced, a bit boring at times, and the minor characters easily outshine the protagonist. But the villain? The villain is sheer brilliance. This was a book I wanted to devour. The twisted, dark journeys Marisha Pessl takes the reader on as you trail Scott in his investigation have the annoying feeling of only scratching the surface of an even darker, even more twisted […]